Thrilled to be recruiting for a PhD student through the Institute for Social Justice here @yorkstjohn.bsky.social for a project exploring best practice in co-produced mental health research with neurodivergent young people. Part time or full time beginning Oct 2026. Questions/ideas? Get in touch!

Want to do a PhD in the heart of York, as part of a supportive growing research community? @swestrop.bsky.social @drlornaham.bsky.social and I are recruiting for a project exploring social connection through an intersectional lens for people living with a learning disability shorturl.at/A0Jyv

Join us in York! 12-month full-time *development-focused* psychology lectureship in our very friendly York St John team. Quant research methods too. Deadline 24th February. Please share: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQL260/l...

Supervision meetings with every PhD student today. Very much enjoyed the variety of activities (coffee in a cafe, sitting on the floor sketching out the next semester, laughing about weird papers). Realized that supervision is often the highlight of my job, because these students are just so fab.

Happy that the last chapter of my PhD is published. We explored the different effects that of viewing the same fitspiration images in the lab or on Instagram. Instagram seems to be especially potent in terms of body image, particularly for those who already have some disordered eating.

New paper!! Excited to share our new piece outlining an ECR perspective on children and young people's mental health research. We offer suggestions around funding, research practice, and institutional governance and processes to support a more socially just, equitable, and rigorous science.

Thoroughly enjoyed a day at the Institute for Health and Care Improvement's research showcase yesterday. Had the chance to share some findings and lessons from a current project with @ercaldwell.bsky.social, meet new people, and learn about the range of coproduced projects across disciplines here.

Here in beautiful Utrecht for the first time at #BRNet2025, ready to present our poster on co-production in body representation research today!

Hosted the first meeting of the Yorkshire Eating Disorder Research Network today. Despite a heavy dose of imposter syndrome-induced nerves earlier, it was great to share discussions about challenges, facilitators, and priorities with others who understand the challenges of working in this area.

A great lab day out yesterday to present some research with @gburton221.bsky.social and @ercaldwell.bsky.social at a @tewv.bsky.social research event. Brilliant to hear about the projects being done through the trust and their ongoing commitment to real coproduction. Also got to see some ducklings!

Looking forward to our next meeting in a few weeks!

LENS@lensmentalhealth.bsky.social · last yr.

Our next meeting will be on 23rd June from 13.00 - 14.00. Sign up at this link: shorturl.at/3U5sB We hope to see you there!

Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Day two in Edinburgh; looking forward to hearing about the incredible research that is being done across the Eating Disorder Research Network. Any conference with @edaceatingautism.bsky.social branded fidget spinners gets my vote!

A great first day in (sunny!) Edinburgh at the Eating Disorder ECR Network event. So valuable to share conversations about the context we're in, especially around funding and coproduction. It can be a lonely space and these events really help to combat that isolation.

Being on a two and a half hour long train journey is a really good time to completely dismantle an article. Just cut about six pages and it's already all the better for it. @harrietbarratt.bsky.social we are doing The Thing and it's strangely liberating!

Getting excited for the #BRNet conference in July! Will be presenting work around coproducing body representation research with @gburton221.bsky.social + @ercaldwell.bsky.social and get to travel with brilliant collaborators like @cejpreston.bsky.social + @annacrossland.bsky.social. Can't wait!

Absolute joy to be bringing this network together with @ruthndwrites.bsky.social!

Ruth Naughton-Doe@ruthndwrites.bsky.social · last yr.

First LENS meeting today was so good! 32 academic mental health researchers with lived experience of mental ill health, all supporting each other and reflecting on our shared joys and challenges. More of that please! Thanks @mhrincubator.bsky.social for funding this @lensmentalhealth.bsky.social

I've come away from our first meeting feeling such a wave of appreciation for community, solidarity, and the bravery and wisdom of everyone who is trying to disrupt the professional-personal binary in mental health research. Looking forward to next time very much!

LENS@lensmentalhealth.bsky.social · last yr.

Thankyou so much to all those who came along to our first meeting this afternoon. It was such a supportive and affirming space, with challenging topics and thought-provoking conversations. Places of solidarity are so important for us all. Watch out for details of our next meeting soon!

Are you interested in marginalization and how this influences eating disorders? We have space for 3 more group members to contribute to a research project on these issues. We have funding to pay for attendance at four meetings; the role can be as involved as you wish. Get in touch for more details!

For me, so much of doing coproduction with young people can be summed up in this photo. We hear alot about outputs, impact, publications, but less about this: hanging out and eating a takeaway. I do really believe, though, that this is the foundation for the rest of it. (1/n)

Happy to have a chapter in upcoming collection on double empathy, coauthored with @drlornaham.bsky.social - we consider double empathy in the HE classroom drawing on our experience and inclusive approaches. pavpub.com/health-and-s...

The Double Empathy Reader - Pavilion Publishing

The Double Empathy Reader: Exploring Theory, Neurodivergent Lived Experience and Implications for Practice brings together a substantial collection of work from leading researchers, theorists and prac...

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Late to the party due to forgetting BlueSky exists but! I'm super proud of this piece and look forward to taking this train of thought further in the future TL;DR of it: BMI should be used with careful and specifc consideration, nuance, and contextual acknowledgement #BMI

Body Representation Network – BRNet@bodyrepnetwork.bsky.social · last yr.

New #ECR blog posts! 🔥 Georgie Burton @gburton221.bsky.social dives into the (in)appropriateness of Body Mass Index (#BMI), exploring its history, its role in discrimination, and whether these measures should even be used. Read her thought-provoking analysis here: shorturl.at/sPq7y

"If lived experience is mediated, edited, and filtered to fit institutional needs, does it still belong to those who lived it?" @projectsoulstride.bsky.social unpacks the increasing sanitisation of lived experience, and calls for a fundamental shift in the movement. www.nsun.org.uk/lived-experi...

Lived Experience is Not Enough: the Illusion of Inclusion in Mental Health Spaces

The lived experience movement is at a crossroads. We can either allow it to be diluted into another form of institutional tokenism, or we can demand more accountability, more inclusion, and ultimately...

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Sign up to learn about the new Lived Experience Network for Scholars (LENS). Alongside presentations from organisers Dr Ruth Naughton-Doe and Dr Ruth Knight, McPin will be sharing advice on managing lived experience disclosure. 1st May 1pm-2.30pm #research www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lived-expe...

Sign up link here!

Ruth Naughton-Doe@ruthndwrites.bsky.social · last yr.

🙌Very excited to share our new support network for mental health and/or addiction research academics with lived experience. We have called it LENS (Lived Experience Network for Scholars). Read more and sign up on Eventbrite for our 1st online meeting in May: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lived-expe...

Super excited about an upcoming project with @ruthndwrites.bsky.social (kindly funded by @mhrincubator.bsky.social) If you're a mental health researcher with lived experience, watch this space!

Come and be part of a really important project investigating how changing the recruitment, relationships and redeployment of early career researchers could improve research culture

Romana and I were delighted to be interviewed for @acamh.bsky.social about our recent scoping review about Patient and Public Involvement methods in child and adolescent mental health. You can listed to the podcast here! acamhlearn.org/Learning/No_...

No decision about me, without me: Collaborating with young people in mental health research

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This week has not been ideal. I realise there is a lot going on at the moment, but the previously somewhat slow but now feels more rapid crisis unfolding in UK HE is really hitting close to home at present

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · last yr.

The announcement from York. £15M 'financial improvements' for next year. 'These measures include boosting domestic undergraduate recruitment, reducing operating costs and collaborating with other institutions.'. 'Ring-fenced voluntary service schemes' but no closures of academic or PS departments.